Time for action – review of existing variables
To view existing variables in BookWarehousingBPEL, we will do the following:
- We will open the BPEL process and click on the (x) icon:
- This will open a dialog, where we can see that we have six variables, all of them as
MessageType:
What just happened?
We have seen that in the BookWarehousingBPEL process we already have six variables. All of them are MessageType. The
inputVariable activity holds the message payload required for the process input. The outputVariable activity holds the response that the process will return. The BookstoreARequest activity holds the request message for the BookstoreA partner link, and the BookstoreAResponse activity holds the response message for the same partner link. The BookstoreBRequest and BookstoreBResponse activities hold the messages for the BookstoreB partner link, respectively.
Declaring XML type variables
We will first learn how to declare XML type variables. We will declare two new XML type variables...
